Censorship
Without censorship, we are destroying our civilization by deteriorating the minds of our youth. Censorship has been a controversial issue for a very long time, and the idea of censorship is nothing new to the American people. The issue is so fragile because censorship infringes on people's First Amendment Rights. With the development of the World Wide Web, censorship has become increasingly necessary because one no longer has to go to the corner bookstore to pick up a Playboy or Penthouse. Adults, as well as children, can get pornographic trash straight off of their computers, and most parents I know do not want their children downloading pornographic material that is always available from the Internet. What effect does such material have on young children, and what is congress doing to face such a challenging issue?Anyone with access to a computer that is equipped with on-line services can view pornographic material with relative ease. The only thing one really needs to do is pull up one of the many search engines and type the word "sex." This will bring up many different web sites that can easily be viewed by anyone's children. In fact, the pornographic web sites are being viewed by ma
What is the government doing to control such corruption? They have implemented the Communications Decency Act. According to an ad placed on the Internet by Time magazine, this act basically describes its position on Internet communications as follows: "Whoever knowingly uses an interactive computer to send to a person or persons under eighteen years of age, or uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner to a person under eighteen years of age, any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms evidently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs, regardless of whether the user of such service place the call or initiated the communication shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more that two years, or both." Is the Communications Decency Act all that we need to solve such a terrible problem? If one answers this with a yes, I seriously hope that he or she is joking. As we are all aware, all rules, although not intended, are made to be broken. The Communications Decency Act is no exception. There is no way that the government can control such a problem as pornography on the World Wide Web, hence the words "World Wide." The problem is way too immense. As adults, we need to take action and become involved. There are program
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